The Christmas gift

In the Play Room.
RIVERDALE STORY BOOKS THE CHRISTMAS GIFT Boston, Lee & Shepard.
The Riverdale Books.
A STORY FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
OLIVER OPTIC, AUTHOR OF “THE BOAT CLUB,” “ALL ABOARD,” “NOW OR NEVER,” “TRY AGAIN,” “POOR AND PROUD,” “LITTLE BY LITTLE,” &c.
BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, (SUCCESSORS TO PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.) 1868.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by WILLIAM T. ADAMS, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
ELECTROTYPED AT THE BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.
THE CHRISTMAS GIFT.
There were to be great times at Mr. Lee’s house during the Christmas Holidays. Frank and Flora had long looked forward to this season, for they expected to enjoy themselves more than ever before.
Their two cousins, Henry and Sarah Vernon, were to spend a week with them; and this alone would have made them very happy. Besides this, Christmas was to be celebrated in a manner worthy of the occasion.
The windows of the parlor and sitting room had been dressed with evergreen, and looked very pretty. And the day before Christmas, when Flora wanted to enter the parlor, she found the doors were all locked. At first she did not know what to make of this, for she had never known the doors to be fastened before.